The FBI reportedly completed its search of Biden&#8217;s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Wednesday afternoon as the criminal investigation into the president&#8217;s handling of classified material grows.
&#8220;The DOJ&#8217;s planned search of the President&#8217;s Rehoboth residences, conducted in coordination and cooperation with the President&#8217;s attorneys, has concluded,&#8221; claimed Bob Bauer, Biden&#8217;s personal attorney. &#8220;The search was conducted from 8:30 AM to noon.&#8221;
Bauer claimed that no documents with classified markings were found.
&#8220;Consistent with the process in Wilmington, the DOJ took for further review some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as Vice President,&#8221; he added.
The FBI&#8217;s search of Biden&#8217;s vacation home comes after they searched his home in January and his office in the Biden Penn Center in November.
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Classified documents connected with Biden were first found in his private office at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C., on November 2, less than a week before the 2022 midterm elections. Since then, Biden’s attorneys have located more classified documents at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, on several separate occasions: an unspecified number found in the garage on December 20, one document found in Biden’s study on January 11, and five more found in the study on January 12.
Federal officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-conducted-13-hour-search-of-bidens-home-found-more-classified-material">confirmed</a> two weeks ago that they found more classified material during a 13-hour FBI search of Biden’s home on January 20.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/politics/justice-department-biden-home-search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last week that while Biden’s team claimed they were cooperative in dealing with the Department of Justice, federal investigators were prepared to get a search warrant if Biden did not consent to being searched.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/merrick-garland-appoints-special-counsel-to-investigate-biden-classified-document-scandal">appointed</a> former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur — who served during the Trump administration — to serve as special counsel in the investigation after the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch, who was assigned to do an initial review of the case, recommended to Garland that a special counsel be appointed.
CNN described the special counsel investigation by Hur as a “full-blown criminal investigation.”
This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.

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A Catholic pro-life activist facing 11 years in prison for allegedly violating a federal law prohibiting people from blocking others from entering an abortion clinic was acquitted on Monday following a week-long trial.
Mark Houck leads a nonprofit group that counsels women outside of abortion clinics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was providing sidewalk counseling when, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/bucks-county-man-indicted-federal-charges-assaulting-reproductive-healthcare-clinic">the Department of Justice says</a>, he assaulted an abortion escort twice “because he was a volunteer reproductive health care clinic escort.”
“Assault is always a serious offense, and under the [Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances] FACE Act, if the victim is targeted because of their association with a reproductive healthcare clinic, it is a federal crime,” U.S. Attorney Jacqueline Romero said in a DOJ press release. “Our Office and the Department of Justice are committed to prosecuting crimes which threaten the safety and rights of all individuals.”
The FACE Act makes it a federal crime to injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone due to their status as a provider of reproductive health care.
Houck and his attorneys at the Thomas More Society <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trial-begins-for-mark-houck-the-catholic-pro-life-activist-bidens-doj-wants-behind-bars">argued</a>, however, that this was &#8220;a political prosecution” meant to “send a message” to pro-life Americans.
“And what’s clear from the Department of Justice at its highest levels, which is directing this case, [is] that they are trying to send a message to pro-life and people of faith: ‘Don’t mess with us,’” Thomas More Society vice president Peter Breen <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/pro-life-activist-mark-houck-pleads-not-guilty-federal-charges-fbi-arrest">told</a> Fox News. “They want to intimidate — they want to cause good people like Mark to stop praying and counseling at the abortion clinics of our country. And that’s not going to happen.”
Breen told the outlet that the case was thrown out of state court but revived by the Biden administration nearly a year after the incident. Further, Breen said, some 20 FBI agents raided Houck’s home when they arrested him, treating him &#8220;as if he was a drug lord or a mafia boss.&#8221;
&#8220;If he was truly a danger to the community, they wouldn’t have waited a year to prosecute,&#8221; Breen said. &#8220;Serious questions need to be asked of the attorney general. What was he thinking? Why did they do this obscene show of force against a peaceful pillar of the community?&#8221;
Houck’s lawyers also argued that the DOJ’s claim that the FACE Act protects anyone associated with an abortion clinic is inaccurate.
“The FACE Act was never intended to cover disputes between advocates on the public sidewalks outside of our nation’s abortion clinics,” Breen <a href="https://thomasmoresociety.org/thomas-more-society-attorneys-drop-bombshell-evidence-in-biden-dojs-persecution-of-pro-life-dad/">said</a> in a statement earlier this month. “This new evidence shows clearly that Congress intended to limit the FACE Act to patients and staff working in the clinic, and not to take sides between pro-life and pro-choice counselors and escorts on the sidewalk. The Biden Department of Justice’s prosecution of Mark Houck is pure harassment, meant solely to intimidate our nation’s pro-life sidewalk counselors who provide vital resources to help pregnant women at risk for abortion.”
Houck pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and testified at trial that he and the clinic escort, Bruce Love, had two altercations on the day in question. The first occurred while Houck was counseling two women crossing the street who left Planned Parenthood, Catholic News Agency <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253490/mark-houck-trial-jury-deadlocked-will-resume-deliberations-jan-30">reported</a>. Love allegedly chased Houck about 100 feet in an attempt to stop him from counseling the women, Life News <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2023/01/30/jury-decides-today-whether-mark-houck-goes-to-prison-for-11-years-for-protesting-abortion/">reported</a>. Houck claimed that Love surprised and made contact with him, causing him to ask, “What are you doing?” and reflexively elbow the escort in the hip to move him out of the way. The prosecution argued that Houck elbowed Love unprovoked because of his status as a clinic escort.
After this, Houck said Love left the clinic and stood near Houck’s 12-year-old son while taunting Houck Sr., saying, “You’re hurting women. You don’t care about women.”
Houck said Love also repeatedly disparaged him to his son, who testified on Friday that Love stood about an arm’s length away from him near the clinic.
“I moved away… because I was scared,” the younger Houck testified, adding that Love told him, “Your dad’s a bad person. Your dad’s harassing women.”
It was after Houck repeatedly told Love to stop harassing his son that Houck said he pushed Love away.
The jury deadlocked on Friday after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation, telling U.S. District Judge Gerald Pappert that they didn’t think they could come to a conclusion given more time. Pappert sent the jury home but instructed them to return Monday morning and continue deliberations anyway.
On Monday, the jury acquitted Houck. Following the verdict, Breen released a statement condemning the Biden administration for pursuing his client.
“We are, of course, thrilled with the outcome,” Breen said. “Mark and his family are now free of the cloud that the Biden administration threw upon them. We took on Goliath &#8211; the full might of the United States government &#8211; and won. The jury saw through and rejected the prosecution&#8217;s discriminatory case, which was harassment from day one. This is a win for Mark and the entire pro-life movement. The Biden Department of Justice&#8217;s intimidation against pro-life people and people of faith has been put in its place.”

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Pro-Life Father Acquitted Of Federal Charges, Attorney Rips Biden Admin ‘Intimidation’

Mark Houck, Catholic Pro-Life Activist Facing 11 Years In Prison, Acquitted At Trial

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The trial for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-swat-team-conducts-early-morning-raid-arrests-pro-life-activist-at-pennsylvania-home-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-life activist</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/catholicism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Catholic</a> father of seven Mark Houck started Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Gerald J. Pappert in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/doj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> is targeting Houck, who leads a nonprofit group that provides sidewalk counseling at abortion clinics in Philadelphia, over an incident from 2021 involving his then-12-year-old son at a Planned Parenthood abortion facility. The family says Houck, who&#8217;s been charged with violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, was defending his son from a harassing pro-abortion activist. Houck is facing 11 years behind bars and $350,000 in fines if convicted.
“This is a political prosecution,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/pro-life-activist-mark-houck-pleads-not-guilty-federal-charges-fbi-arrest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> one of Houck&#8217;s attorneys, Peter Breen, Thomas More Society vice president. Breen added his client is innocent and the Biden DOJ moved against Houck to “send a message” to pro-life Americans.
“And what’s clear from the Department of Justice at its highest levels, which is directing this case, [is] that they are trying to send a message to pro-life and people of faith: ‘Don’t mess with us,&#8217;” he said. “They want to intimidate — they want to cause good people like Mark to stop praying and counseling at the abortion clinics of our country. And that’s not going to happen.”
“What in the world would possess the Department of Justice to send 20 or so heavily armed agents to this family’s home, violate the sanctity of that home, frighten the children and then drag their father away instead of allowing us to present him peacefully, which we had offered to do?” Breen questioned.
The DOJ in a press release last year <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/bucks-county-man-indicted-federal-charges-assaulting-reproductive-healthcare-clinic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> Houck assaulted the abortion escort on two occasions on October 13, 2021, &#8220;because he was a volunteer reproductive health care clinic escort.&#8221;
“Assault is always a serious offense, and under the FACE Act, if the victim is targeted because of their association with a reproductive healthcare clinic, it is a federal crime,” U.S. Attorney Jacqueline Romero said in the release. “Our Office and the Department of Justice are committed to prosecuting crimes which threaten the safety and rights of all individuals.”
Lawyers for Mark Houck during pre-trial last week said they produced evidence proving that when Congress passed the FACE Act &#8220;it expressly intended to exclude so-called &#8216;escorts&#8217; operating outside of abortion facilities from being encompassed by the FACE Act.&#8221;
“The FACE Act was never intended to cover disputes between advocates on the public sidewalks outside of our nation’s abortion clinics,” Breen <a href="https://thomasmoresociety.org/thomas-more-society-attorneys-drop-bombshell-evidence-in-biden-dojs-persecution-of-pro-life-dad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “This new evidence shows clearly that Congress intended to limit the FACE Act to patients and staff working in the clinic, and not to take sides between pro-life and pro-choice counselors and escorts on the sidewalk. The Biden Department of Justice’s prosecution of Mark Houck is pure harassment, meant solely to intimidate our nation’s pro-life sidewalk counselors who provide vital resources to help pregnant women at risk for abortion.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/political-prosecution-pro-life-activist-mark-houck-fights-back-pleads-not-guilty-to-federal-charges-after-controversial-arrest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Political Prosecution’: Pro-Life Activist Mark Houck Fights Back, Pleads Not Guilty To Federal Charges After Controversial Arrest</a>

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Trial Begins For Mark Houck, The Catholic Pro-Life Activist Biden’s DOJ Wants Behind Bars

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Attorney General Merrick Garland</a> is bucking President Joe Biden by seeking the death penalty for an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/radical-islamic-terror" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleged Islamist terrorist</a> accused of killing eight and injuring more than a dozen in a 2017 New York City truck attack.
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Biden vowed to end federal executions, but his top lawman is pursuing the ultimate penalty in the case of a Uzbekistan national who allegedly ran over cyclists and pedestrians on a bike path near Manhattan’s West Side Highway on Halloween five years ago. The federal trial begins Monday.
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“Clearly, he is following laws Congress passed by recognizing at least that the death penalty should be sought in some cases, regardless of President Biden&#8217;s contrary views,” Michael Mukasey, who served as attorney general under President George W. Bush, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/nyregion/garland-biden-saipov-death-penalty.html?auth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The New York Times</a>. “I think this is a principled decision and very much the right thing to do.”
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Federal prosecutors say the defendant, who allegedly steered a rented truck onto the crowded bike path before crashing into a school bus, all while yelling &#8220;Allahu Akbar,&#8221; planned the attack and has shown no remorse since being arrested. They claim he was radicalized by watching ISIS videos.
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The dead included six tourists, a computer scientist from New York, and a Wall Street worker from New Jersey.
The Daily Wire is not naming the suspect, in keeping with a policy aimed at depriving mass killers of the notoriety they crave.
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The alleged killer will be the first federal defendant to face the death penalty under the Biden administration. If he is convicted, it will be up to the jury to decide whether to give him life in prison or execution. The jury must be unanimous in order for the death penalty to be imposed.
<div id="attachment_486156" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-486156" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-486156 size-large" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/GettyImages-871363910-864x576.jpg" alt="Attorney General Merrick Garland is bucking President Joe Biden by seeking the death penalty for Sayfullo Saipov, an alleged Islamist terrorist accused of killing eight and injuring more than a dozen in a 2017 New York City truck attack." width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/01/GettyImages-871363910-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/01/GettyImages-871363910-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/01/GettyImages-871363910-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/01/GettyImages-871363910-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/01/GettyImages-871363910-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/01/GettyImages-871363910-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/01/GettyImages-871363910-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />The attack occurred on Halloween of 2017 along a bike path near Manhattan&#8217;s West Side Highway. (Getty Images)</div>
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Months after the attack, the suspect’s lawyers offered his guilty plea in exchange for life in prison, but the Trump administration refused. Under Trump, the Justice Department reinstituted the death penalty in 2019, 16 years after the last federal convict had been executed. The penalty was still on the books but had not been used due to litigation over drugs used for lethal injections. Then-Attorney General William Barr ordered the Bureau of Prisons to begin using pentobarbital, and 13 federal convicts were executed before Trump left office.
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Garland has not sought the death penalty in any new cases, declared a moratorium on federal executions, and withdrew plans by prior administrations to seek the death penalty in 25 cases. The Garland Justice Department has defended against appeals of death sentences imposed under the Obama administration against the Boston Marathon bomber and the white supremacist convicted of killing nine in a Charleston, S.C., church in 2015.
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“It&#8217;s very hard to make sense of the way the Biden administration is thinking about and proceeding with the federal death penalty,” Austin Sarat, a professor of law and political science at Amherst College, told The New York Times.
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Garland, then a DOJ prosecutor, sought the death penalty for the terrorist behind the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168. He said in 2021 that he stood by the decision in the case of that terrorist, who was executed in 2001, but subsequently developed concerns about the death penalty based on racial aspects and cases in which DNA has exonerated convicts.
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Garland imposed a moratorium on federal executions in July 2021, citing his own concerns about Biden’s authority to halt them.
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Two men were arrested for allegedly attacking four power substations in Washington state on Christmas Day as part of a plan to shut down electricity and to steal from an unnamed local business.
Matthew Greenwood, 32, and Jeremy Crahan, 40, were charged on Tuesday with conspiracy to damage energy facilities. Greenwood was also charged with possession of unregistered firearms.
“I commend the work by the FBI to quickly identify these suspects and disrupt any future attacks on the east Pierce County power grid,” said U.S. Attorney Nick Brown in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/two-charged-attacks-four-pierce-county-power-substations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the Department of Justice.
“We have seen attacks such as these increase in Western Washington and throughout the country and must treat each incident seriously. In addition, the outages on Christmas left thousands in the dark and cold and put some who need power for medical devices at extreme risk,&#8221; he added.
The criminal complaint indicated that the two men were identified as potential suspects through cell phone records. An image of one of the suspects was also captured at the site of an attack in Tacoma, along with an image of a pick-up truck likely involved.
A warrant was issued, and clothing was found in the homes of the two men matching the surveillance photos. Two unregistered firearms were also seized from Greenwood&#8217;s home, including one equipped with a &#8220;make-shift&#8221; silencer.
The two men are suspects in attacks on four substations with damages estimated at a minimum $3 million.
The DOJ noted that conspiracy to attack energy facilities is punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Possession of an unregistered firearm is punishable by up to 10 years.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/substation-attacks-leave-15k-washington-homes-without-power-on-christmas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, more than 15,000 homes were without power on Christmas Day after vandalism damaged the four substations across Washington state.
The attacks began at 2:30 a.m. Pacific Time on Christmas morning, with three incidents taking place during the morning hours and a fourth incident reported on Christmas night.
The report stated that the locks at two of the substations had been cut to gain entry. The fence was vandalized in the third incident. The method of access in the fourth incident was not mentioned.
The attacks are part of a growing number of incidents nationwide against power stations in recent months. Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Puget Sound Energy, and the Cowlitz County Public Utility District confirmed their substations were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/authorities-report-five-electricity-substations-targeted-in-pacific-northwest-days-after-north-carolina-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked</a> in November, the Seattle Times <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/pse-substations-among-five-attacked-in-pacific-northwest-in-november/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
In early December, a substation attack took down power for more than  40,000 homes and businesses in Moore County, North Carolina.
The incidents have come as the Department of Homeland Security has warned of threats to the nation’s electrical infrastructure in recent years. The DHS “National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin” issued in November <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/publication/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-november-30-2022-translations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> that people with personal grievances “continue to pose a persistent and lethal threat to the Homeland.”

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A “non-binary queer” <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11560403/NYC-artist-identifies-non-binary-queer-charged-trying-sex-9-year-old.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">artist</a> was recently <a href="https://reduxx.info/non-binary-queer-artist-arrested-after-seeking-to-rape-a-9-year-old-boy-distributing-child-abuse-material/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> for allegedly trying to rape a 9-year-old boy after a series of conversations with undercover FBI agents.
According to the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/defendant-charged-attempted-enticement-nine-year-old-boy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a>, the accused, Efrem Zelony-Mindell, allegedly started communicating on an encrypted messaging site and “repeatedly expressed, in graphic and unambiguous terms, his desire to engage in sexual activity with minor children.” The defendant is also accused of sending an undercover agent &#8220;numerous images and videos containing child pornography.&#8221;
A short time later, Zelony-Mindell communicated with another undercover agent posing as the father of a nine-year-old boy.
Zelony-Mindell allegedly &#8220;made clear that he was interested in having sex with the nine-year-old child,&#8221; a DOJ press release said.
The DOJ further claimed the defendant “made clear that he wanted to engage in sexual activity, including specifically anal sex” with the undercover agent&#8217;s purported son. The agent told Zelony-Mindell that his boy would be “knocked out a little bit” from sleep medicine, and the defendant allegedly “agreed to have sex with the drugged child,” according to federal authorities.
The agent and defendant arranged to meet on a street corner in New York City on Friday, the DOJ said, and planned to go to an apartment where Zelony-Mindell “would then engage in sexual activity with the child.”
A third undercover agent arrested Zelony-Mindell at the agreed-upon location in lower Manhattan.
“The protection of children from predation remains of critical importance to this Office, and we will continue to use our resources and work with our law enforcement partners to bring offenders to justice,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. 
The act of engaging in sexual intercourse with someone who is not able to consent is considered statutory rape.  
FBI Assistant Director Michael J. Driscoll called the defendant’s actions “nearly unfathomable.”
“Today’s action should serve as a reminder to anyone who seeks to prey on children &#8211; the FBI Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Task Force and our law enforcement partners will continue to aggressively pursue you and hold you accountable,” Driscoll added.

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A selfie <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/police-disclose-how-they-caught-alleged-biden-admin-luggage-thief-sam-brinton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sam Brinton</a> posted to Instagram may have been the final piece of the puzzle linking a second airport luggage theft to President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition.
According to a <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/dec/10/rainbow-colored-atom-t-shirt-helped-vegas-cops-pin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published Saturday by The Washington Times, Las Vegas police were struggling to determine the identity of the person — who was clearly visible on surveillance video from early July walking away with a woman&#8217;s hard-sided suitcase. However, they caught a break when reports of Brinton&#8217;s alleged involvement — in a similar luggage-theft case in Minnesota — began to circulate nationwide.
When the Las Vegas police officer noticed that the photos of Brinton bore a striking resemblance to the as yet unidentified face from the surveillance videos, he decided to check out the Biden administration official&#8217;s social media. As luck would have it, Brinton had posted a selfie to Instagram on the date of the theft — and in that selfie, was wearing the same shirt as the person on the video from the airport. Brinton&#8217;s Instagram account has since been made private.
&#8220;On his page I located a post which was dated 07/06/22, the same day of the theft,&#8221; the officer&#8217;s statement read. &#8220;The post was a selfie picture of Brinton who appeared to be in an airport. Brinton was clearly wearing the same exact white T-shirt with a large, rainbow colored atomic nuclear symbol design on the front as seen on video at Hairy Reid International Airport.&#8221;
According to the arrest warrant, Brinton allegedly flew from Dulles International Airport with one checked bag but left Harry Reid International airport with two bags from the baggage carousel. Police said that the suspect had acted strangely when removing the second bag, placing it back on the carousel momentarily before grabbing it again and walking away hurriedly.
&#8220;Brinton looks around, turns his body 180 degrees, and picks the victims luggage up off the carousel again. Brinton sets it back to back with his luggage, pulls the handle up and looks around again. Brinton quickly walks away with his luggage and the victim’s luggage back to back, rolling them on the floor holding on by the handles,&#8221; the warrant said.
The stated value of the suitcase (and its contents) taken in Las Vegas was $3,670.74, including $1,700 worth of jewelry and an additional $500 worth of makeup.
Brinton has been placed on leave while the investigation continues — and a number of Republicans have called for <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/gop-house-members-urge-firing-of-non-binary-biden-official-sam-brinton-over-alleged-theft/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brinton</a> to be fired.

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Biden’s Embattled Gender-Fluid Official Sam Brinton Caught Cops' Attention With Instagram Post

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Several months after former Senate staffer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tara-reade">Tara Reade</a> accused <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sexual-assault">sexual assault</a>, the Department of Justice (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/doj">DOJ</a>) issued a subpoena to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter">Twitter</a> demanding personal information on her accounts, including credit card or bank account numbers.
The subpoena was only <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/02/doj-tara-reade-twitter-joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegations/">recently revealed</a> by the Daily Caller, which obtained emails and documents relating to the incident showing the DOJ asked Twitter to testify in front of a grand jury on December 16, 2020, to provide “all subscriber information” for Reade’s accounts. The information was requested of two accounts belonging to Reade, including @ReadeAlexandra and @TaraMcCabe.
The DOJ requested the following information from the accounts, according to the Caller:
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<li>Address;</li>
<li>Records of session times and durations, to include attempted/failed/unauthenticated logins;</li>
<li>Length of service (including start date) and types of service utilized;</li>
<li>Telephone or instrument number or other subscriber number or identity, including any temporarily assigned network address; and</li>
<li>Means and source of payment for such service (including any credit card or bank account number)</li>
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Reade told the Caller that she didn’t “know why” the DOJ requested the information.
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“Other than coming forward about Joe Biden, there would be no reason for them to do that,” she told the outlet.
The grand jury was scheduled for July 9, 2020, but Hayden Schottlaender, a Perkins Coie lawyer representing Twitter, didn’t reach out to Reade until December 8, 2020, to tell her about the subpoena.
Reade told the Caller that Schottlaender spoke to her on the phone that day, telling her Twitter tried to fight the subpoena in court but “then had to file a motion” to let her know it “was happening.” Schottlaender followed up that conversation with an email obtained by the Caller.
“To recap our conversations to date, I represent Twitter and have contacted you to inform you that Twitter received the attached subpoena from the United States Department of Justice, seeking data related to your Twitter account(s). The subpoena issues in a sealed proceeding,” Schottlaender wrote in the email.
“As I mentioned, Twitter intends to comply with this subpoena on December 16, 2020, unless it receives notice from you that a motion to quash or otherwise invalidate this subpoena has been filed. If you do file any such motions, please send a copy directly to me at this email address. If, on the other hand, you have no concerns with Twitter producing the requested data, please similarly let me know,” Schottlaender added.
Earlier in 2020, Reade said she had filed a police report in April 2020 alleging Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 while he was a senator. Reade <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schow-the-metoo-women-the-democratic-party-doesnt-care-about">reportedly</a> told friends of Biden’s alleged assault that year. Her story has apparently evolved over time, however, from sexual harassment to assault, and her claim that Biden assaulted her in a “side area” somewhere between Biden’s old Senate office and the gym isn’t possible, as no such side area exists in that space.

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U.S. Department of Justice authorities announced Wednesday that two former officials of a Louisiana city were sentenced to one year in prison for paying or offering to pay citizens for votes.
Court documents show Jerry Trabona, 73, the former Amite City police chief, and Kristian “Kris” Hart, 50, a former Amite City councilmember, conspired to pay citizens residing in Tangipahoa Parish to vote during the 2016 open primary election and the 2016 open general election — contests in which Trabona and Hart were candidates.
“Trabona and Hart’s vote buying scheme included the solicitation and hiring of individuals responsible for identifying potential voters, the transportation of those voters to the polls, and payment and offer of payment to the voters for voting,” a<a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-louisiana-police-chief-city-councilmember-and-additional-co-conspirator-sentenced-vote"> news release</a> from the DOJ stated.
Authorities also ordered Trabona to pay a $10,000 fine for his role in the conspiracy.
The Sinclair Broadcast Group&#8217;s National Desk <a href="https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/former-sheriff-city-councilmember-sentenced-in-vote-buying-scheme-jerry-trabona-kristian-hart">reported</a> federal authorities initially charged Trabona and Hart with one count of conspiracy to commit vote-buying and multiple counts of vote-buying and aiding and abetting.
Trabona allegedly concealed his scheme by soliciting voters to sign contracts that falsely stated they would not “make any overture of any kind to any voter or other person of financial award or benefit in exchange for a vote.”
“The Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that illegal voting, including vote buying, has no place in our nation’s electoral system,” Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr., of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, said in a<a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edla/pr/former-louisiana-police-chief-and-city-councilmember-plead-guilty-vote-buying"> news release</a> last summer.
U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans for the Eastern District of Louisiana said in a press release that the state must have “fair elections, free from the taint of corruption, to ensure a fully functional government.&#8221;
“Safeguarding the voting process is of paramount importance to our office and the Department of Justice,” Evans said.
Authorities said that providing voters with money or something of value in exchange for a vote constitutes a federal crime.
Officials said co-conspirator Sidney Smith, 69, of Amite City, paid voters with money provided by Trabona and Hart.
Smith was sentenced to four months in prison for his role in the scheme.
Two other co-conspirators — Calvin Batiste and Louis Ruffino — were also involved. Officials said they would be sentenced at a later date.

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The Department of Justice wants Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, 38, who made billions of dollars before she was ultimately convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy, to spend 15 years in prison rather than walk free.
Additionally, the DOJ wants Holmes to pay $800 million in restitution to investors who were defrauded.
“Considering the extensiveness of Holmes&#8217; fraud&#8230; the sentencing of 180 months&#8217; imprisonment would reflect the seriousness of the offenses, provide for just punishment for the offenses, and deter Holmes and others,” federal prosecutors <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/business/us-seeks-15-years-in-prison-for-elizabeth-holmes-over-theranos-fraud-3518686">stated.</a>
Theranos Inc. claimed initially that it could use a few drops of blood to obtain results as far-ranging as cancer and cholesterol. “Investors have poured more than $400 million into Theranos, <a href="http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/?co=Theranos" data-type="link">valuing it at $9 billion</a> and her majority stake at more than half that, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-has-struggled-with-blood-tests-1444881901">reported</a> in 2015.
By 2014, Holmes, worth $4.5 billion, was touted as the youngest self-made female billionaire. But In 2015, the Journal commenced writing about the company, finding that its claims were inaccurate. In January 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services charged Theranos with deficient practices that could jeopardize patients’ health.
Theranos soon closed its medical lab operations. In April 2017, over 175,000 people were <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/arizona-attorney-general-reaches-settlement-with-theranos-1492538329?mod=article_inline">awarded</a> a full refund in a settlement that forced Theranos to pay $4.65 million into an Arizona state reimbursement fund.
“I wanted to make sure that every Arizonan who had paid for a test, whether or not it was accurate, would get a refund,” Attorney General Mark Brnovich stated.
In June 2018, federal prosecutors charged Holmes and her number two, Ramesh Balwani, with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud. The trial was delayed twice, once for the COVID pandemic and another when Holmes told the court she was pregnant.
At her trial in November 2021, Holmes said she had not targeted former employees Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung, who had given information to the Journal. But prosecutors displayed a letter sent to Cheung from a law firm threatening litigation if she confessed trade secrets, and indicated that someone confronted Shultz and urged him to sign legal papers.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; (R) administration rebuffed this week any attempt by the Biden administration to monitor elections in the state from inside polling locations.
The Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-monitor-polls-24-states-compliance-federal-voting-rights-laws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement this week that it was sending officials to 64 jurisdictions throughout the U.S., most of which were in red or purple states. Included in this list were three areas in Florida: Broward County, Miami-Dade County, and Palm Beach County.
Brad McVay, General Counsel at the Florida Department of State, responded to the Biden administration&#8217;s announcement by informing them that federal officials were not allowed inside polling locations, according to state law.
&#8220;(T)he Florida Department of State received copies of your letters to Miami-Dade and Broward Counties in which you seem to indicate that the Department of Justice will send monitors inside polling places in these counties,&#8221; the letter began. &#8220;We also understand you sent a similar letter to Palm Beach County.&#8221;
&#8220;But Department of Justice monitors are not permitted inside a polling place under Florida law,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;Section 102.031(3)(a) of the Florida Statutes lists the people who &#8216;may enter any polling room or polling place.&#8217; Department of Justice personnel are not included on the list. Even if they could qualify as &#8216;law enforcement&#8217; under section 102.031(3)(a)6. of the Florida Statutes, absent some evidence concerning the need for federal intrusion, or some federal statute that preempts Florida law, the presence of federal law enforcement inside polling places would be counterproductive and could potentially undermine confidence in the election.&#8221;
McVay&#8217;s letter noted that communications from the Biden administration to the counties in Florida &#8220;do not detail the need for federal monitors.&#8221;
&#8220;None of the counties are currently subject to any election-related federal consent decrees,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;None of the counties have been accused of violating the rights of language or racial minorities or of the elderly or disabled.&#8221;
&#8220;Your letters simply provide a non-exhaustive list of federal elections statutes as the basis for this action without pointing to any specific statutory authorization,&#8221; McVay concluded. &#8220;When asked for specific authorization during our phone call this evening, you did not provide any. Accordingly, the Florida Department of State invokes its authority under section 101.58(2) of the Florida Statutes to send its own monitors to the three targeted jurisdictions. These monitors will ensure that there is no interference with the voting process.&#8221;

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Senator <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) demanded receipts from <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/sunny-hostin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunny Hostin</a> when she claimed on &#8220;The View&#8221; that former Attorney General <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Barr</a> was guilty of politicizing and weaponizing the United States Justice Department.
Cruz joined the regular co-hosts for Monday&#8217;s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show, and he argued that it was President Joe Biden&#8217;s Attorney General Merrick Garland who had turned the DOJ into a political weapon, using it to treat parents at <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/national-school-board-association-at-risk-of-total-collapse-following-letter-comparing-parents-to-domestic-terrorists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school board meetings</a> like domestic terrorists.
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Cruz embarrasses Sunny for her LAZY attack on AG Bill Barr.&quot;You&#39;ve said a name. What did Bill Barr do? Give me the target who was persecuted.&quot; She couldn&#39;t. He called out AG Garland for targeting parents and Sunny showed she didn&#39;t read his book, asking if he wrote about it. <a href="https://t.co/ydHd1YtPKf">pic.twitter.com/ydHd1YtPKf</a>
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Republican host Ana Navarro criticized Cruz for his support of former President Donald Trump, arguing that his responsibility was to the U.S. Constitution and the democratic process over any one person.
Cruz agreed — and immediately turned her argument on its head, arguing that Democrats were the ones who were undermining the Constitution by using the FBI and Justice Department to target political opposition.
&#8220;The Department of Justice and the FBI have been turned into partisan weapons to attack the political opponents of the Biden administration,&#8221; he explained, prompting one of the show&#8217;s hosts to choke and cough.
Whoopi Goldberg tried to push back, claiming that it was really Trump who had outright ignored the Justice Department and the way things were supposed to work. &#8220;You are talking about we corrupted it, you guys don&#8217;t pay any attention to it,&#8221; she insisted.
&#8220;Whoopi, that&#8217;s a great talking point —&#8221; Cruz replied, causing Goldberg to bristle and claim that she didn&#8217;t &#8220;do&#8221; talking points.
Cruz went on to argue that the move to subpoena Trump had been primarily political and that no one actually expected him to testify under oath.
&#8220;Bill Barr,&#8221; Hostin jumped in next, claiming without presenting any actual evidence that the former AG had weaponized the Justice Department.
Cruz called her out, saying, &#8220;You&#8217;ve said a name. What did Bill Barr do? If he weaponized — give me the target who was persecuted.&#8221;
He pivoted again, quickly laying out the evidence against Biden&#8217;s AG Garland: &#8220;Because I can tell you who the Democrats — Merrick Garland directed the FBI to go after moms and dads who go to school boards and to treat them as domestic terrorists using the Patriot Act. That is fundamentally wrong —&#8221;
&#8220;Did you write about that in your book?&#8221; Hostin challenged.
&#8220;Yes, I did,&#8221; Cruz replied.

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